the word before?
when you say i will see you in about a week before school starts, does it mean i will see you in a week? or a week before school starts?(not next week)
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I would take it to mean that I will see you in about a week — and that school will not start for more than a week or two.
So, I will see you in about a week, which is before school starts.
Because basically that’s what was said.
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You don’t say I will see you in about a week before school starts. You either say, I will see you in a week, or; I will see you a week before school starts.
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A week before school starts and probably not next week.
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Clearly you really really like the person who said this to you and now you are going over this one line in your head to try and figure out exactly what it means. Relax. If they like you back – they will find a way to see you. But either way, the next time you see them you’ll be able to tell for yourself if it’s next week or the week before school starts. Or both. So try and chill and let it come to you.
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The sentence would be better with a comma after ‘week’:
I will see you in about a week, before school starts.
It means I will see you approximately one week from now, and that at that time, school will not have started.
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you will see this person 7 days before the first day of school….so say school starts on Sept 8, you will see this person on Sept 1….get it ?
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I concur; what’s the purpose of adding a prepositional phrase if the earlier is implied? The latter is probably implied, but the grammatical construction is clumbsy. Don’t say ‘in.’
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